Blog Neglect

Yes I have negelected my blog this week.  I have been pretty busy gearing up for a big promotion release tomorrow at work.  There is going to be a massive flood of users all at once logging into our web portal to check their scores to see if they got promoted or not.  A co-worker of mine and myself have been tunning the systems and planning for the sudden surge of users tomorrow morning at 8 am.  It is going to be so much fun.  This will be our first promotion release on our new WebSphere servers.  The good news is after tomorrow morning it’s over.

Here’s a good reason to follow Apple at WWDC.

Here’s a quote from an article over at AppleInsider.

One of the biggest revelations at WWDC was quietly unveiled in a session on Friday morning entitled “Building Native Look-and-Feel Web Applications Using SproutCore.” While Apple maintained high security during the entire NDA-sealed WWDC session, the secret of SproutCore is out because it is an open source project and people can’t stop talking about it.

I really like the idea of not being tied to a proprietary platform like Flash when developing web applications. This falls in line with my distaste for Apple in general. But when I see companies like Apple utilize open source technologies I get excited. Here is the framework Apple is using for development of web centric applications. SproutCore, Looks like the site seems to be down today they must be experiencing the digg effect.